{"id":7802,"date":"2013-11-02T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7802"},"modified":"2013-11-02T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T10:40:00","slug":"listen-to-the-the-melbourne-cup-on-radio-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/listen-to-the-the-melbourne-cup-on-radio-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to the The Melbourne Cup on Radio Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Melbourn-Cup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7803\" alt=\"Melbourn-Cup\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Melbourn-Cup-300x219.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Melbourn-Cup-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Melbourn-Cup-100x73.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Melbourn-Cup.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>John Figliozzi writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Radio Australia will preempt its regular programming beginning at 0400 UT\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0to provide live coverage of the running of the 2013 Melbourne Cup horse race. \u00a0RA will have special programming at 0400 and 0530, before and after the race. \u00a0It will join the national sports program Grandstand beginning at 0430. \u00a0The Melbourne Cup is Australia&#8217;s greatest and most loved horse race and is run annually on the first\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0in November. It is known as &#8220;the Race that stops a Nation!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listeners can access the coverage via shortwave [9660, 12080, 15160, 15240, 15415, 15515, 17750, 17840, 21725; and 13630 after 0500 ] and the internet [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/sport\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/<wbr \/>sport\/<\/a>] and [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioaustralia.net.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.radioaustralia.<wbr \/>net.au<\/a>].&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Figliozzi writes: &#8220;Radio Australia will preempt its regular programming beginning at 0400 UT\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0to provide live coverage of the running of the 2013 Melbourne Cup horse race. \u00a0RA will have special programming at 0400 and 0530, before and after the race. \u00a0It will join the national sports program Grandstand beginning at 0430. \u00a0The Melbourne Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,81,3,651,43,1167],"tags":[703,368,1168,2313],"class_list":["post-7802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-current-events","category-news","category-schedules-and-frequencies","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-john-figliozzi","tag-radio-australia","tag-radio-australia-shepparton","tag-the-melbourne-cup"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-21Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10280,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/johns-summary-of-radio-australia-cuts\/","url_meta":{"origin":7802,"position":0},"title":"John&#8217;s summary of Radio Australia cuts","author":"Thomas","date":"July 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"John Figliozzi, author of The Worldwide Listening Guide, recently posted his summary of Radio Australia cuts on several radio discussion groups. 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